Page 11: Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

Jun 05   In the year 1968 senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68   

Jun 05   Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day on this day in history.   

Jun 05   In the year 1968 uS Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles   

Jun 06   On this day in history franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies   

Jun 06   On this day in history senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.   

Jun 07   Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60 on this day in history.   

Jun 07   Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination on this day in history.   

Jun 08   Gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" in the year 1968.   

Jun 08   On this day in history james Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport.   

Jun 08   On this day in history new colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted   

Jun 08   Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash" on this day in history.   

Jun 10   In the year 1968 yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65   

Jun 12   On this day in history fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76   

Jun 14   Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 in the year 1968.   

Jun 15   On this day in history john Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral   

Jun 15   Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 in the year 1968.   

Jun 18   In the year 1968 supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing   

Jun 19   In the year 1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign   

Jun 20   Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds in the year 1968.   

Jun 21   On this day in history ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91   

Jun 21   In the year 1968 supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 resurrection City closed   

Jun 25   Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 on this day in history.   

Jun 26   Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US in the year 1968.   

Jun 27   Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague on this day in history.   

Jun 27   In the year 1968 norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies   

Jun 28   Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers on this day in history.   

Jun 29   Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Jun 30   Gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections in the year 1968.   

Jun 30   In the year 1968 john Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   In the year 1968 death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) died in the year 1968.